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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. The enterprise whose personnel are directly involved in doing the work of the project






2. An estimating technique that uses the values of parameters - such as scope - cost - budget - and duration or measures of scale such as size - weight - and complexity from a previous similar activity as the basis of estimating the same parameter or me






3. Project schedule compression that changes network logic to overlap phases that would normally be done in sequence






4. Documenting the actions necessary to define - prepare - integrate and coordinate all subsidiary plans






5. Learning gained from the process of performing the project






6. Logical relationship where initiation of the work of the successor schedule activity depends upon the initiation of the work of the predecessor schedule activity






7. Approved integrated scope-schedule-cost plan for the project work against which project execution is compared to measure and manage performance






8. The time in calendar units between the start and finish of a schedule activity






9. A formally constituted group of stakeholders responsible for reviewing - evaluating - approving - delaying or rejecting changes to a project - with all the decisions and recommendations being recorded






10. Management methodology for integrating scope - schedule and resources and for objectively measuring project performance and progress. performance is measured by determining the budgeted cost of work performed (earned value) and comparing it to the ac






11. Structure that relates the project organizational breakdown structure to the work breakdown structure to help ensure that each component of the project scope of work is assigned to a person or team






12. Tracking team member performance - providing feedback - resolving issues and managing changes to optimize project performance






13. Uncertain event or condition that has a positive or negative effect on projects objectives






14. Collection of schedule activity dependencies that makes up a project schedule network diagram






15. Technique that computes or iterates the project cost or project schedule many times using input values selected at random from probability distributions of possible costs or durations - to calculate a distribution of total project costs or completion






16. Project schedule network diagram drawn in such a way that the position and length of the schedule activity represents its duration. bar chart that includes schedule network logic






17. A point in time associated with schedule activity's completion.






18. Documented direction to perform an activity that can reduce the probability of negative consequences associated with project risks






19. Hierarchal organization where each employee has one clear superior and staff are grouped by areas of specialization and managed by a person with expertise in that area.






20. Collection of generally sequential project phases whose name and number are determined by the control needs of the organization involved in the project






21. Document describing how roles and responsibilities - reporting relationships and staffing management will be addressed and structured for the project






22. Graphic display of cumulative costs - labor - hours - percentage of work or other quantities - plotted against time. used to depict planned value - earned value and active costs.






23. Judgment provided based upon expertise in an application area - knowledge area - discipline - industry - etc. as appropriate for the activity being performed.






24. Budgeted cost of work performed






25. A collection of formal documented procedures that define how project deliverables and documentation will be controlled - changed and approved. in most application areas - the change control system is a subset of the configuration management system






26. List of project team members - their project roles and communication information






27. Calculated projection of cost performance that must be achieved on the remaining work to meet a specified management goal. ratio of remaining work to funds remaining






28. Schematic display of the logical relationships among the project schedule activities. drawn from left to right.






29. Fixed price contract where the buyer pays the seller a set amount regardless of the sellers costs






30. Depiction in a diagram format of the inputs - process actions - and outputs of one or more processes within a system






31. Someone with management authority over an organizational unit within a functional organization.






32. Collection of projects or programs and other work that are grouped together to facilitate effective management of that work to meet strategic business objectives






33. Graphical representation of situations showing causal influences - time ordering of events and other relationships among variables and outcomes






34. Monitoring and recording results of executing the quality activities to assess performance and recommend necessary changes






35. Sum of products - services and results to be provided as a project






36. Aggregation of the processes - tools - techniques - methodologies - resources and procedures to manage a project






37. The statue - quality or sense of being restricted to a given course of action or inaction. an applicable restriction or limitation - either internal or external to a project - which will affect the performance of the project or a process.






38. Modification of a logical relationship that directs a delay in the successor activity. activity with a 10 day lag - cannot start until 10 days after an activity is finished






39. Point in time that work was scheduled to start on a schedule activity. called planned start date.






40. A general data gathering and creativity technique that can be used to identify risks - ideas or solutions to issues by using a group of team members or subject matter experts






41. An imperfection or deficiency in a project component where that component does not meet requirements or specifications and needs to be either repaired or replaced






42. Documenting project purchasing decisions - specifying the approach and identifying potential sellers






43. The degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfills requirements






44. A mutually binding agreement that obligates the seller to provide the specified product or service or result and obligates the buyer to pay for it






45. Area of project management defined by its knowledge requirements and described in terms of its component processes - practices - inputs - outputs - tools and techniques






46. The person assigned by the performing organization to achieve the project objectives






47. Risk that remains after risk responses have been implemented






48. Approach to optimize project life cycle costs - save time - increase profits - improve quality - expand market share - solve problems - and use resources more effectively






49. The latest possible point in time that a schedule activity may begin based upon the schedule network logic - the project completion date and any constraints assigned to schedule activities without violating schedule constraint or delaying project com






50. A short unique numeric or text identification assigned to each schedule activity to differentiate that project activity from other project activities. typically unique within any one project schedule network diagram